Adding Exercise

Thursday food & exercise:

Treadmill, 45 mins. 2.3 mph

Breakfast: Bowl of Maple Brown Sugar Frosted Mini Wheats w/ Silk Vanilla Soy Milk (rather small serving, it was the end of the box).

Lunch: Sushi from the grocery store. Package said “spicy roll combo” but it wasn’t.  3 rolls, 4 pieces each, of tuna/avocado, shrimp/avocado, and eel/avocado.  And a Diet Lemon Tea Snapple.  Damn but lunch was yummy, even if I did have to eat it in my car in between errands.  The avocado is part of my attempt to add more veggies to my diet. Yeah, I know they’re high in fat but it’s the good kind of fat.  I admit to never really liking them much before, but I’m starting to develop an appreciation for them.

Dinner: Tamale Pie (ground turkey, corn, tomatoes, spices, topped with cornbread & cheese).  I’ll gladly post the recipe if anyone is actually reading this and wants it.

 Snacks: Caribou Coffee Northern Lite Vanilla Cooler. Bowl of Raisin Bran Crunch w/ Silk Vanilla Soy Milk.  1 slice White Wheat bread w/ peanut butter.  And, as always, lots of Crystal Light to drink all day long.

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I figured it would be a good idea to actually list the healthy changes I’m trying to make with my life, why, and how I’m doing. 

For now, I’ll just cover the first one:

Get more exercise.  Just get SOME exercise.  Hell, get ANY exercise. 

Because I didn’t.  Not ever.  Not unless it was forced upon me and I had no choice.  And it showed.  Any exertion had me sweating and out of breath – although not so much out of breath as I had been when I was a smoker.  (August 7 will be my 1 year anniversary.)  But it was embarassing that I couldn’t walk uphill without huffing and puffing like a freight train.  So I joined a gym.  I’m still a little in shock over that one, because I’m so not the gym type.  But I found one I really liked because: A. It’s all women. B. They let my 10 year old daughter work out with me for free. C. They have DVD players hooked up to all the cardio machines.  So, being the TV-on-DVD junkie that I am, it became the perfect solution. If I’m going to be watching all these episodes (and I am), I might as well be doing something healthier than sitting on the couch while I watch them.  So I never go to the gym without a DVD in hand – I pop it into the player attached to a treadmill and off I go for a 45 minute (give or take) walk.   I started on June 22, going 1.5 mph.  I’ve been going 5 – 6 days per week since, and have worked up to 2.3 mph.  Still a little old lady speed, but I’m making progress and I’m proud of myself.